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Emmy Awards 2016 nominations ballot: By the numbers

The nomination process for the 68th annual Primetime Emmy Awards kicked off on June 15 when the TV academy posted ballots online. Voters have until June 27 at 5 pm PT to submit their ballots to Ernst & Young, the accounting firm that oversees the process.

As per the rules, all 17,000 plus members of the TV academy can cast nomination ballots for program nominations (save for animated documentary/nonfiction which are restricted to their peer groups.) Voters may select up to 10 programs per category. Unlike the Oscars, Emmy voters do not rank their choices and nominees are determined by a simple tally.

There will be seven nominees in each of Comedy Series and Drama Series and six in the rest. Below, we breakdown the number of contenders in each program category as well as for performers and reality hosts (by way of comparison, last year’s count is in brackets)

REALITY HOSTMembers of the Casting, Daytime Programming, Producers, Production Executives, Professional Representatives, Reality and Television Executives branches cast nominations ballots for this category as well, listing up to five hosts.

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